4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Quanta Services (PWR)

4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Quanta Services

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, energy infrastructure company Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR ) has earned a respected four-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Quanta's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Quanta facts

Headquarters (Founded)	Houston (1997)
Market Cap	$5.5 billion
Industry	General contractors
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$5.7 billion
Management	CEO James O'Neil, III (since May 2011) CFO Derrick Jensen (since May 2012)
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years)	5.5%
Cash/Debt	$172.9 million / $39.0 million
Competitors	EMCOR Group Integrated Electrical Services MYR Group

Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 97% of the 489 members who have rated Quanta believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.

Just last week, one of those Fools, Thekills, touched on the several tailwinds working in Quanta's favor:

Interesting diversified [infrastructure] play. Likely to strongly profit from smart grid trend. Also well positioned to profit from trend to stronger use of Natural Gas in the US. Likely to win many project[s]. Likely to profit from low interest rate environment. Utilities will have some nice orders for them. Think backlog will improve.

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